The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.
Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673-1721., Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692. Hunter, a discourse in horsemanship.
The Table for FISHING: Being the Fourth and last PART.
- THe Introduction
- Page 1
- An Encomium, or somewhat in praise of Fisher-man and Fishing
- 7
- Fish-ponds to improve, and the fish therein contained
- 8
- Carps to make them grow to an extraordinary bigness in Pond
- 10
- General Observations to be understood in the Art of Ang∣ling
- 11
- Astrological Elections for Angling in general
- 13
- What provision is to be made for Angling-tools
- 14
- A Line after the best manner, how to make
- 15
- Of the Hook, Flote, and other things worth the observation
- 16
- Flies Natural and Artificial, and how to use them
- 18
- Of Ground-angling
- 23
- Of Night-angling
- 24
- What times are seasonable, and what unseasonable to angle in
- 25
- Of the Barbel
- 27
- Of the Bream
- 29
- Of the Bleak
- 31
- Of the Bull-head or Millers-Thumb
- 32
- Of the Chevin
- 33
- Of the Char
- 34
- Of the Chub, Cheven, Chavender
- ibid.
- Of the Carp
- 36
- Of Dace or Dare
- 38
- Of the Eel
- 39
- Of the Flounder
- 42
- Of the Gudgeon
- 43
- Of the Guiniard
- ibid.
- Of the Loach
- 44
- Of the Minnow
- 45
- Of the Pope or Ruff
- ibid.
- Of the Pike
- 46
- Of the Pearch
- 50
- Of the Rud
- 52 Page [unnumbered]
- Of the Roach
- ibid.
- Of the Stickleback
- 55
- Of the Salmon
- ibid.
- Of the Tench
- 57
- Of the Torcoth
- 61
- Of the Trout
- ibid.
- Of the Umber or Grayling
- 63
- Fishes Haunt, &c.
- 64
- Experimental Observations and Directions for Angling
- 67
- An Angling Song
- 75
- An Abstract of such Penal Laws as relate to Fishing
- 76